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owenm1116's review against another edition
4.0
McKay’s poetry does a good job of exploring a lot of negative parts of life. I feel that his poetry at least compared to Hughes is better at capturing specific vignettes but I feel that I enjoyed these vignettes a lot. After over a month of not really going back through the poetry one poem about a lynching still sits with me. It shoots back to me whenever I’m driving home from work, washing my hands, or just going to sleep. I think this collection was worth reading if only for “The Lynching”
c8_19's review against another edition
emotional
fast-paced
4.0
I was delighted to discover McKay seemed to especially enjoy writing about winter, and he wrote well about ideas of race and home, too. It was easy to feel the drudgery that could be life in New York, the longing for what his life was like in Jamaica, and bursts of hope or mirth when celebrating moments of affection or a new dawn.
mrjess_bhs's review
4.0
Some of this is a very traditional style of poetry, which isn’t my preference, but WOW do some of these hit hard. There is a lot of insight into experiencing America while Black in this volume. My favorite was probably Outcast.
jessiehans13's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual content, Murder, Hate crime, and Racism
zuzublack's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
i don’t know why i love the harlem renaissance but i do
italo_carlvino's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
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